Maggie loves hanging out with her best friends Methuselah (her talkative African Grey parrot) and Edmund (the richest boy in Hong Kong), but she loathes attending boring parties with her high-flying mum and dad! Little does she know that a Family Fun Day at Government House will trigger a thrilling adventure involving one of Hong Kong's greatest mysteries: what happened to the immensely valuable Chater Collection, which was hidden on the eve of the Japanese invasion in World War Two? A funny, exciting story for pre-teens set in one of the world's most exotic cities, where cultures meet and risks are for the taking! Sarah Brennan's work is a meeting between traditional Asian narratives and the universal taste of children for graphic stories. The tale-telling gifts shown in these books, along with the exuberance of the language and rhymes, make them unique in children's literature. -- Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s Ark Sarah Brennan was born in Tasmania, Australia, where she grew up in bushland with a menagerie of exotic animals and birds, and even a platypus! After working as a lawyer in Brisbane and London, she moved with her husband and two daughters to Hong Kong, where she became the much-loved children's author of the Chinese Calendar Tales , the Dirty Story series and the multi-award listed Storm Whale . After 22 years living in Southeast Asia, Sarah now lives in the south of France, touring in schools throughout the world with her bestselling books and writing workshops for primary school children.